Boris Johnson: Children at risk of Islamic extremism should be taken into care

Boris Johnson: Some children are being taught ‘crazy stuff’ (Picture: PA)

Boris Johnson has claimed that Muslim children at risk of radicalisation from their parents should be taken into care.

The mayor of London believes that children at risk of extremist Islam should be treated in the same way as those at risk of paedophilia or female genital mutilation.

He explained in his Sunday Telegraph column that it is a ‘fatal squeamishness’ and ‘political correctness’ in British society that has prevented the issue being tackled before.

Citing the case of Lee Rigby’s killers Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, Mr Johnson claimed some children are being ‘taught crazy stuff’.

‘The most important question now is how we prevent other young men, and women, from succumbing to that awful virus: the contagion of radical Islamic extremism,’ he said.

‘We need to be stronger and clearer in asserting our understanding of British values,’ he added.

While he claimed there has been a concerted effort to suppress radical clerics, Mr Johnson said more understanding is needed of what goes on inside the family home.

‘It is estimated that there could be hundreds of children who are being taught crazy stuff: the kind of mad yearning for murder and death that we heard from Lee Rigby’s killers.

‘A child may be taken into care if he or she is being exposed to pornography, or is being abused – but not if the child is being habituated to this utterly bleak and nihilistic view of the world that could lead them to become murderers.’